Palestinian
Authority TV this week started to openly celebrate
Israeli civilian
casualties, and broadcast a video clip entitled,
"Where
will you run?” The clip shows Hezbollah
terrorists launching
rockets towards Israeli cities, followed by images
of the Israeli
civilian and military destruction and
casualties.

One line
in the Palestinian video is, "We are all South
(Lebanon).
We are all revolutionaries!"

This celebrating
of attacks on Israeli civilians by the PA
corresponds to a poll
released yesterday, which found that "97% of
Palestinians
support Hezbollah´s position towards Israel."
[Near East
Consulting, Ramallah]

This
figure of 97% support for Hezbollah attacks is even
higher than
the approximately 70% of Palestinians who
consistently supported
suicide terror against Israeli civilians during the
four-year
terror war. (This year, Palestinian support for
suicide terror
has stood around 55%.)

The
higher support for Hezbollah attacks on civilians
than for PA
suicide terror may seem surprising, but there is a
simple explanation.
Those Palestinians who opposed suicide terror
argued that it
was "damaging to the Palestinians,” not
that it was
wrong. Even such so-called moderates as Mahmoud
Abbas, Hanan
Ashrawi and Sari Nusseibah called for a halt in PA
suicide terror
because of the damage to the Palestinian people,
not because
it was morally wrong.

This professed opposition to terror for tactical
reasons meant
that the actual proportion of Palestinians who
considered Israeli
civilians legitimate targets was always higher than
the 70%
mark. In this case, since Hezbollah attacks are not
damaging
the "Palestinian people," 97% of
Palestinians support
these attacks.

With this video clip, Palestinian TV follows
Hezbollah TV station
Al Manar, which has been celebrating civilian
casualties daily
in their clips.